Jesica Berman, professor of English, recently gave a talk at Vanderbilt University on entitled, “Documentary Interruptions: Virginia Woolf’s Three Guineas and the Media of War.” The talk was part of the second annual Modernist Mini Jamboree, a celebration of modernism in literature and film sponsored by the English Department and the Program in Film Studies and took place on Friday, November 2.
Berman’s Her recent book, Modernist Commitments: Ethics, Politics and Transnational Modernism (Columbia University Press, 2011), examines the connection between ethics and politics in early twentieth-century writers such as James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, Mulk Raj Anand, Cornelia Sorabji, Max Aub and Meridel Le Sueur, and argues for an expansive, transnational approach to the definition of literary modernism.